You mean LIKE US, don't you?????
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After all until we ACTUALLY FOUND tube worms living at the bottom of the Atlantic Rift living off boiling sulphuric acid we 'naturally' assumed that such a thing was absurd and patently impossible. We falsely assume that ET life would be ANYTHING like us or anything proto-humanoid or 'bear' we see on the old Vid.
C'mon/. aren't we just sick of these "isn't it kewl to run a webserver on a stringcheese powered cowskull". "Nertz! - my webserver on a toothbrush is the shit !!"
Would Tremendous Blue buy the SPARC line as well or do they simply want the intellectual property of the software division? Does IBM want to maintain Solaris? Do they want to cross port AIX and Solaris into each other's hardware platform? Linux for both and screw AIX and Solaris? Kill off the SPARC line altogether?
OSS and cheap hardware is frequently the only lever for some smart people to launch themselves out of the developing economies they live in. Closed source - eg. expensive code is a barrier.
"Unless IBM programmers had suddenly figured out a way to write error-free code -- an unlikely assumption -- Lehman made a dire prediction: OS/360 was heading over a cliff. IBM, in stressing growth over source-code maintenance, would soon be in need of a successor operating system."
Which means that commerical systems don't so much evolve as stub their growth paths out and switch direction or spawn new generations because embedded complexity has killed off the feasibility of maintaining it. In other words, all new releases are the cause of and ultimately an attempt to escape from, the chimera that is overly complex code. In commercial terms this should be astounding. We're paying to gronk up our own because we erroneously believe the NEXT version will be something radically new and elegant which of course it can't be.
In the near future all computers will be OS/2. Prepare to be absorbed into the collective.
My PC will just be boards randomly hung
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I'm just going to glue boards to the wall and shove the powersupply halfway through the sheetrock. The hardrives will hang from the chandelier in the dining room. And I'll make the monitor watertight and mount it inside the fishtank.
Changing the distribution model WILL NOT change the way artists are NOT compensated today. They could charge a 100 bucks a CD - would artists be rich. No Way. The record industry sucks 98 cents out of every revenue dollar from the payment stream.
Believe this - record companies making promises about taking care of artists is pure bullshit. It is a puff of smoke blowing up your ass like puppies and apple pie and Jesus and smiling dirty blonde children. You don't hate children and puppies and Jesus, do you? How can you hate this or think we'll not compensate artists??? Are you a communist ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Because if it is then by all means spend time doing this. Else, just spend some money on better hardware - probably memory. The cost of that hardware is probably far less then the cost of your labor.
If you need to build an insto-recovery system for a network of identical machines, that is something different. By all means create an ability to rapid rebuild a blown system and recover the last incremental backup. But otherwise don't try to make a hardware problem into a software solution.
Give me something wicked fast and utterly reliable. I run K on two low end PCs and frankly it kind of sucks from a usability perspective given its sluggishness.
All this geekness is way kewl and shit but for 10 years I've been waiting for a rugged affordable laptop you don't have to baby. I want a crack proof shatter proof shock proof case that doesn't weigh 9 lbs.
What should they use? Kevlar and shock foam plastic? Inorganic ceramics? What???
Let's see the headline quote from IBM is that Linux doesn't scale. 2/3rds of the way into the article there's a general consensus that Linux is a toy for tinkerers and there are no applications and by the end - the whole 'desktop is dead' thing.
Here let me winch my fist up up your ass a little deeper. Twist! How does that feel?
Never comment on other people's modding else you will be modded down. This is a Prozac moment. At 4:11pm EST Tuesday 03.26.2002/. officially took itself too fucking seriously.
A game with no people or a game with roboslaves to allow you to play god. Sounds like geek heaven to me. If only the real world could be that way. We could all be the far weird comic book store guy from the Simpsons.
Gateway - the company long committed to the philosophy that quality control is for other people and as long as it turns on the first time that's good enough. And now they bitch and moan that getting treated like a beef patty by their own supplier is unfair.
Lemme tell you what - you two deserve each other. MS/Holstein - a dysfunctional marriage made in hell.
Internet connection Low end Ethernet NIC to broadband Wireless to broadband Low end office apps for personal/school Personal bookkeeping/money Geneology and similar specialized apps Multimedia CD operations including stripping and burning CD burning for data backup Games Internet games IM Color scanning Color printing Sharable file formats Trackball/optical mouse support Joystick game controller support Quick boot Resilient recovery from hard power off
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After all until we ACTUALLY FOUND tube worms living at the bottom of the Atlantic Rift living off boiling sulphuric acid we 'naturally' assumed that such a thing was absurd and patently impossible. We falsely assume that ET life would be ANYTHING like us or anything proto-humanoid or 'bear' we see on the old Vid.
C'mon /. aren't we just sick of these "isn't it kewl to run a webserver on a stringcheese powered cowskull". "Nertz! - my webserver on a toothbrush is the shit !!"
F is for you.
WTF would someone take time out to do this - a badly warped paranoid sense of their own importance?
Gort, Let's go trolling for Ho's. Get the wheelchair.
I'm sorry. I can't do that Dave.
The antithesis of the rat's ass - that is, er, rilly rilly kewl.
You know, The Shiznatz!!!
Would Tremendous Blue buy the SPARC line as well or do they simply want the intellectual property of the software division? Does IBM want to maintain Solaris? Do they want to cross port AIX and Solaris into each other's hardware platform? Linux for both and screw AIX and Solaris? Kill off the SPARC line altogether?
My kids think Gamecube is the cat's ass.
OSS and cheap hardware is frequently the only lever for some smart people to launch themselves out of the developing economies they live in. Closed source - eg. expensive code is a barrier.
"Unless IBM programmers had suddenly figured out a way to write error-free code -- an unlikely assumption -- Lehman made a dire prediction: OS/360 was heading over a cliff. IBM, in stressing growth over source-code maintenance, would soon be in need of a successor operating system."
Which means that commerical systems don't so much evolve as stub their growth paths out and switch direction or spawn new generations because embedded complexity has killed off the feasibility of maintaining it. In other words, all new releases are the cause of and ultimately an attempt to escape from, the chimera that is overly complex code. In commercial terms this should be astounding. We're paying to gronk up our own because we erroneously believe the NEXT version will be something radically new and elegant which of course it can't be.
New Version "x+1.y" is simply an ejection seat.
In the near future all computers will be OS/2. Prepare to be absorbed into the collective.
I'm just going to glue boards to the wall and shove the powersupply halfway through the sheetrock. The hardrives will hang from the chandelier in the dining room. And I'll make the monitor watertight and mount it inside the fishtank.
Changing the distribution model WILL NOT change the way artists are NOT compensated today. They could charge a 100 bucks a CD - would artists be rich. No Way. The record industry sucks 98 cents out of every revenue dollar from the payment stream.
Believe this - record companies making promises about taking care of artists is pure bullshit. It is a puff of smoke blowing up your ass like puppies and apple pie and Jesus and smiling dirty blonde children. You don't hate children and puppies and Jesus, do you? How can you hate this or think we'll not compensate artists??? Are you a communist ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Because if it is then by all means spend time doing this. Else, just spend some money on better hardware - probably memory. The cost of that hardware is probably far less then the cost of your labor.
If you need to build an insto-recovery system for a network of identical machines, that is something different. By all means create an ability to rapid rebuild a blown system and recover the last incremental backup. But otherwise don't try to make a hardware problem into a software solution.
Give me something wicked fast and utterly reliable. I run K on two low end PCs and frankly it kind of sucks from a usability perspective given its sluggishness.
All this geekness is way kewl and shit but for 10 years I've been waiting for a rugged affordable laptop you don't have to baby. I want a crack proof shatter proof shock proof case that doesn't weigh 9 lbs.
What should they use? Kevlar and shock foam plastic? Inorganic ceramics? What???
20336K w/ 65MB swap file before
15144K w/ 68MB swap file after starting with new blank document.
Obviously a bunch of stuff already running on this Win95OSR2 machine.
Let's see the headline quote from IBM is that Linux doesn't scale. 2/3rds of the way into the article there's a general consensus that Linux is a toy for tinkerers and there are no applications and by the end - the whole 'desktop is dead' thing.
Here let me winch my fist up up your ass a little deeper. Twist! How does that feel?
Never comment on other people's modding else you will be modded down. This is a Prozac moment. At 4:11pm EST Tuesday 03.26.2002 /. officially took itself too fucking seriously.
A game with no people or a game with roboslaves to allow you to play god. Sounds like geek heaven to me. If only the real world could be that way. We could all be the far weird comic book store guy from the Simpsons.
Or you will be modded down. We are happy shiny people. la la la la la.
Unlike the people who do all those jobs now. If I could only get a robot to perform minimally sufficient babysitting....that would be the cat's ass!
Gateway - the company long committed to the philosophy that quality control is for other people and as long as it turns on the first time that's good enough. And now they bitch and moan that getting treated like a beef patty by their own supplier is unfair.
Lemme tell you what - you two deserve each other. MS/Holstein - a dysfunctional marriage made in hell.
Here in Research Triangle Park, NC we are in the midst of the worst recession and the worst unemployment since the invention of the vacuum tube.
Home apps are:
Internet connection
Low end Ethernet NIC to broadband
Wireless to broadband
Low end office apps for personal/school
Personal bookkeeping/money
Geneology and similar specialized apps
Multimedia
CD operations including stripping and burning
CD burning for data backup
Games
Internet games
IM
Color scanning
Color printing
Sharable file formats
Trackball/optical mouse support
Joystick game controller support
Quick boot
Resilient recovery from hard power off